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Author Archives: Avril Hannah-Jones
Reflection: Notes from 20 years of the Uniting Church’s sexuality debate
I remember that moment and the Presbytery’s unanimous, unquestioning endorsement. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Eighth Assembly, Fifteenth Assembly, homophobia, homosexuality, Ninth Assembly, ordination, sexuality, sexuality debate, thesis, UAICC, Uniting Church
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Reflection: Marriage for Eureka Street
I wrote something for Eureka Street. You can read it here. Enjoy.
Sermon: Aren’t there times when you just want to punch Hitler?
I can remember the shock and fear I felt watching an ABC documentary that screened in 2000, so well within my adult life, about the bashing of gay men in Townsville. One young man said, ‘I’m a Catholic. It’s meant to be a woman with a man, not a man with a man. That’s sick. That’s hitting material’. Continue reading
Sermon: Scarcity, Abundance, and ‘Enoughness’
We are not God, we are not called to be God, and so just as we are, we are good enough, perfect enough, powerful enough, strong enough, extraordinary enough. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged abundance, being enough, bread, Gospel according to John, John 6, John 6: 35 41-51, scarcity, Year of Mark
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Communion, the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, has many symbolic and spiritual meanings, but it is also always about feeding the world’s hungry. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged bread, communion, eucharist, Gospel according to John, John 6:24-35, the Lord's Supper, Year of Mark
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Reflection: My chains fell off, my heart was free
I am proud of the Uniting Church and of every member of the Assembly who discerned a way forward with grace and humility. Continue reading
Sermon: Kindred in unity
I believe that we will be able to live together in unity as kindred. That is not naïve optimism. It is faith based on what God has managed to do in the past. Continue reading
Assembly Working Group on Doctrine response to Prof James Haire
Prof Haire’s response to the Report reveals a superficial and selective reading and, at times, a misreading or misrepresentation of its content. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Fifteenth Assembly, marriage, marriage equality, same-sex marriage
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Sermon: The importance of good biblical interpretation
Bad Biblical interpretation has been used by Christians to justify the most appalling crimes against humanity: slavery; the Holocaust; apartheid. We must read the Bible carefully, in context, and through the lens of Jesus’ commands that we love God and neighbour because the alternative is terrifying. Continue reading
Sermon: So, you want to have a king …
In the same way that we can be certain that the author of Samuel was wrong to attribute a desire for genocide to God, we can be certain that there are things that we believe about God today that will later be revealed to be wrong – because we are human and, as the Apostle Paul wrote, we currently only ‘see in a mirror, dimly’. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged 1 Samuel 8:4-20, genocide, King David, King Saul, kingship, Prophet Samuel, reading the Bible, Year of Mark
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